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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd., Kobe-shi, Hyogo, JP;
Dan S. Nivanh, Tustin, CA (US);
SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD., Kobe, JP;
Abstract
A golf club includes a striking face, a top portion, a sole portion opposite the top portion, and a shaft assembly. The shaft assembly can include a shaft having a butt end and a tip end, and a shaft sleeve located at the tip end, the shaft sleeve including indicia. The golf club may further include a hosel extending from the top portion, and the hosel can include a sidewall, a tip end, an internal bore for receiving the shaft assembly, a hosel axis, and an aperture extending through, and circumscribed by, the sidewall such that the indicia of the shaft sleeve corresponds with the aperture. The sidewall circumscribing the aperture may include an inner surface having a first thickness Tin a radial direction relative the hosel axis and a chamfered edge having a second thickness Tin the radial direction, T/Tbeing between approximately 3 and 7.33.